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Political
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Fire over foreign policy fiascos |
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By Our Political Editor |
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The flood of pious pronouncements, voluminous media releases and high-pitched propaganda seem to have failed to drown mounting accusations against the Government by foreign nations and international organisations over human rights abuses and related issues. |
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5th
Column |
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Across the East, the sun shines, and there’s no more...... |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My dear Mahinda maama,
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Situation
Report |
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Nayaru fireball: Sea mine or human torpedo? |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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 If there was a lull in the battlefields of Wanni due to heavy rains, the fighting shifted to the high seas.
Before dawn yesterday, six Navy Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC) were on patrol in the north-eastern seas in formations of two each. |
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Lobby |
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The guilty, and the innocent until proven guilty..... |
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By Chandani Kirinde, Our
Lobby Correspondent |
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This Government has a simple yardstick by which it measures media freedom in the country. "Read the Sunday papers and look at all the articles criticizing the President and the Government. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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Who would disagree with the JVP on public expenditure? |
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By the Economist |
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 The JVP’s current views on the government’s expenditure are right on track with the thinking of international agencies, economists and all right thinking people. They have become strange bedfellows with the JVP. |
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Focus on Rights |
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'After all, they are only arresting Tamils' |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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My neighbour confided to me in an aside the other day, that she was not sure what the fuss was all about anyway. "After all' she said 'they are only arresting Tamils, are'nt they.' |
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Inside the glass house |
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How many deaths will it take to end the war? |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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As most Americans lamented the fifth anniversary of the US war on Iraq last week, the resounding cry of the peace activists reverberated throughout the country: "Bush lied, people died." |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Reporters without sense and senseless reports |
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By Neville de Silva |
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The Paris-based organisation that calls itself Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiers) has surely been misnamed. It should have read Reporters Without Sense, a more accurate description of the manner in which it functions and reports events in countries other than its own. |
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Telescope |
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Tissa: I don’t know why I am being held |
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By J.S. Tissainayagam |
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On March 8, around 3 a.m., about five TID officers took him to his residence and searched the premises till 4 a.m. The police officers found a copy of the North Eastern Monthly Magazine which they took with them. Mr. Tissainayagam said he was asked to take some clothes with him before leaving the residence. |
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